To:LYUBOV AXELROD

Published:First published in 1929 inLenin Miscellany XI.

      Sent from London to Berne.

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      Progress Publishers,[1977],

      Moscow,Volume 43,

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Igreatly regret that I just cannot comply with your request and come
to Berne. My health is very bad, and I really do not know whether I shall
be able to deliver the lecture in Paris properly; did not manage to prepare
it, almost complete
			Arbeitsunfähigkeit,[1]nerves no good at all. If I could, I would get out of going to Paris too,
but it would be a shame to let them
down.[2]If I don’t disgrace myself in Paris and if I rest a little
afterwards, I shall domy best to come over without fail (perhaps in the autumn), but now I simply
cannot do it.

Withbest regards and many thanks for letting us hear from you.

Yours,Lenin

P.S.My wife would like to know whether the letter for L. Gr., and also
her letter concerning the money (with the request that the money be
returned or transferred to Richter), have been received.

[1]Incapacitation.—Ed.

[2]OnJune 27, 1902, Lenin delivered a lecture criticising the
Socialist-Revolutionaries at a meeting of Russian political emigrants in
Paris.